New update from commercial software makers SnapStream, including:
# Support for DivX recording mode for Plextor PX-TV402U/PXM402U
# Beyond TV Link trial now works with Beyond TV Server trial
# Support for new ATI All-In-Wonder boards and new ATI drivers
# Converted recording engine to use slices rather than a circular buffer for improved stability.
Can’t say Im a huge […]

I’m not sure what to make of a media release that only states that products are now available on a particular site, but just in case anyone is interested, PVR solutions provider Video Without Boundaries has announced that Yahoo.com is now carrying VWB’s MediaREADY 4000, 5000, and Flyboy media center and portable products.

All I want for Christmas is this little gem featured on our sister site The Gadget Blog, Microsoft’s Remote Keyboard for Windows XP Media Center Edition. Colbert doesn’t seem to like it but for my liking having to get down on the floor near the PVR to use a keyboard when I dont want to […]

Interesting review on MythTV over at Newsforge, particularly the comments on how easy it is to tweak the Linux stuff. My personal experience is the opposite, I haven’t had to use a command prompt in any depth in over 10 years and I panick at the thought now. Any, have a read, not a bad […]

TiVo has launched a limited time offer on all TiVo Series2 boxes that brings the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of a 40 hour box to just $99, the lowest price ever without a TiVo rebate requirement. The promotion ends on August 20, 2005.
TiVo says the instant savings promotion celebrates the birth of the new summer […]

For those that know their Linux, IBM’s Developerworks has some interesting stuff in the internals of a Tivo box. Bit beyond my capabilities, but looks interesting none the less.

A new report from The Diffusion Group suggests that as DirecTV phases out shipments of TiVo DVRs – a relationship that accounted for 70% of TiVo units sold in 2004 but will account for less than 5% of unit shipments by 2007 – TiVo will be forced to come to terms with an increasingly competitive […]

TiVo viewing data by New York-based media agency MPG finds that over the past two weeks, most of TiVo users’ top 25 broadcast network shows weren’t recorded but instead seen live.
“It seems like the DVR usage is seasonal,” said Nina Kanter, director of communication analysis at MPG told the Hollywood Reporter.
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I’ve finally got around to installing the latest release from the team behind the open source Media Portal project, 0.1.3 prerelease version, and despite some great expectations I’ve got to say I was disappointed with it, but before I go on this is a pre-release version and as such its not the final release, and […]